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Strategy & Consulting · Houston
Execute-first, right here in Houston
The strategic questions in Houston are usually capital-allocation questions — whether a project clears its hurdle, whether to build or contract, whether a diversification away from a single commodity cycle is real or a story. Feasibility work here is closer to underwriting than to planning.
Market-entry work here often means a company strong in one segment of the energy chain deciding whether its capability transfers to another, or to an adjacent industrial market. The analysis is mostly about which of its advantages are genuinely portable.
Capability transfer is where these engagements usually turn. A company assumes its advantage is technical when it is actually relational — a reputation with specific operators, or a safety record that took a decade — and that does not necessarily travel to a new segment.
So the analysis separates what is genuinely portable from what is local to the current market, and prices the cost of rebuilding the rest. That is often the difference between a sound diversification and an expensive one.
Sector specialists in energy know the technology and the regulatory detail better than a generalist will, and for a purely technical feasibility question they are the better hire. The commercial and operating question — whether the company can execute it, and at what cost — is the one we take.
Houston's project-driven economy is squarely in our wheelhouse, and we travel here for the on-site parts of an engagement — the embed phase, the working sessions, the days that need a room and the people in it.
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Education · Online Learning
Mural Academy: A Strategic Diagnostic and 90-Day Plan to Validate Before Launch
90 daysfrom kickoff to a validated founding cohort
A validation-first launch strategy and a founder-usable 90-day execution plan
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Real Estate & Hospitality
Cornerstone Development: A Three-Park RV Resort Portfolio
3 parksa portfolio across multiple markets, told as one opportunity
An investor-ready portfolio story for a multi-site RV resort development
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Taking a Consumer Brand Upmarket: The Sunday Arvo House
60–110%above the visible market ceiling — the upmarket gap the strategy had to justify
A validated decision to go upmarket — the position, the economics, the sizing, and a 90-day launch plan
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Strategy & Consulting in Houston — questions
Do you work with businesses in Houston?
Yes. Houston's project-driven economy is squarely in our wheelhouse, and we travel here for the on-site parts of an engagement — the embed phase, the working sessions, the days that need a room and the people in it. Strategy & Consulting for Houston clients runs to the same fixed-scope, fixed-price standard as everywhere CMA works.
How does a Houston engagement start?
With a 30-minute intro call: your situation, an exact scope, and a fixed price in writing — no obligation. From there the work begins, with deliverables and a timeline you can hold us to.
What does strategy & consulting cost in Houston?
The same published pricing as every CMA market — there's no local markup. Fixed-price work is fixed before we start; ongoing engagements are scoped on the intro call. See the pricing page for current figures.
Do you work on site in Houston, or remotely?
Both. CMA is based in downtown Dallas and travels to Houston for the parts of an engagement that need a room and the people in it — the embed phase, where we watch the work as it actually runs, and the working sessions after it. Travel is written into the scope before anything starts, never added to an invoice afterward. Document-driven work — plans, decks, research, models — runs on a remote cadence in between.
What if the honest answer is that the idea does not work?
Then that is the finding, and you get it in writing with the evidence behind it. A feasibility study exists to tell you before you commit capital, not after, and a recommendation not to proceed is a legitimate outcome of one.